Vinay | विनय

two things; 1. It is obvious to anyone who's had and lyrical training that the actress did not sing this piece in shot. This means it was prerecorded. Bollywood has a long standing tradition of using singers and actresses separately. 2. What happened to bollywood women? Her manner seems way more forward thinking than the simpering actresses of today. - Gina K

Gina: You are of course right in your point 1. All song picturizations in Hindi movies use lip-sync to an already recorded version, which again is almost always sung by another singer and not the actor. As for your question in #2, even though I don't think your observation is entirely true, you are spot on about Geeta Bali, the actress in the song. She was way ahead of her times. - Vinay | विनय

"300. Surprise your dad at the office." - Vinay | विनय via Bookmarklet

You'd think there'd be a session on that in journalism school. - Logical Extremes

funnier if he used his middle name initial - charles or just Mike C. Litoris ;) - jlt

jlt, it actually wouldn't. That would destroy the joke. Kind of like saying Mike Hunt's name needs a middle initial. - Fleagle

Bumping from the existing 5GB, it can change a lot of things in the online storage business. - Vinay | विनय via Bookmarklet

"The sales tax authorities levied a 10 per cent tax on bubble gum, treating it as an unclassified item. A dealer challenged the order contending that bubble gum was a confectionery and should be taxed at 6.25 per cent. The dealer won the case at the Tribunal and the High Court as well, arguing that bubble gum could be described as mithai in Hindi. He further contended that in a state where the official language was Hindi, in any dispute over the meanings of Hindi and English words, the one in Hindi should prevail. The Supreme Court, however, cited Wikipedia’s definition of bubble gum as a chewing gum designed for blowing bubbles with, holding that it was neither a confectionery nor a sweetmeat. (CTT vs Associated Distributors Ltd.)" - Vinay | विनय via Bookmarklet

"Children with various range of expressions watching story of St. George and the dragon at the puppet theater in the Tuileries. Location: Paris, France. Date taken: 1963" - Vinay | विनय via Bookmarklet

reminds me of "the 400 blows." good movie. - Jessie

"This idea - that excellence at a complex task requires a critical, minimum level of practice - surfaces again and again in studies of expertise. In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is a magic number for true expertise: 10,000 hours." - Vinay | विनय via Bookmarklet

"In study after study, of composers, basketball players, fiction writers, ice-skaters, concert pianists, chess players, master criminals," writes the neurologist Daniel Levitin, "this number comes up again and again. Ten thousand hours is equivalent to roughly three hours a day, or 20 hours a week, of practice over 10 years... No one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time. It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery."" - Vinay | विनय

fascinating. - Jessie

Forbes send me a mail saying there's an interview next month in Forbes with MG - Daniel W. Crompton

Oh, my, God. - tehKenny

Yes, and seeing as how the Gmail team still hasn't responded to my help requests from '05 and '06, I can only guess this will be ignored too. - Anika Malone

This is a old problem. Google mail can't distinguish between dots in email addresses. - Chris W

Yes, at work because i have *cries* PC here, IE has proxys on it, so i use firefox to get to all the good sites i want :) - Simon Wicks

Only for the few remaining sites that require it. - Justin Rains

I often do when something doesnt seem to work right in opera or chrome - Joelle Nebbe

"The Small House Society is a voice for the Small House Movement. That movement includes movie stars who have downsized into 3000 square feet, families of five happy in an arts and crafts bungalow, multifamily housing in a variety of forms, and more extreme examples, such as people on houseboats and in trailers with just a few hundred square feet around them. Size is relative, and mainly we promote discussion about the ecological, economic and psychological toll that excessive housing takes on our lives, and what some of us are doing to live better. It’s not a movement about people claiming to be “tinier than thou” but rather people making their own choices toward simpler and smaller living however they feel best fits their life." - Vinay | विनय via Bookmarklet

I'm all for smaller houses but I think in my household, our computers alone would fill the house in the picture. - Rochelle

"If you're wasting time fighting with CSS -- and we know you are -- we've got just the tool you need. Download the Give Up and Use Tables timer. We've scientifically determined the maximum amount of time that you should need to make a layout work in CSS: it's 47 minutes. When your time is up, we'll even give you the table code you need. Take three minutes to build a table. And ten minutes to get a donut. Bill the client for an hour. Done." - Vinay | विनय via Bookmarklet

"This is completely unacceptable and has to change. Look, we cheered for you. Kenya had an orgasm when you won. The British dropped their plate of spotted dick (it's a food item, you pervert) as soon as they heard. The Chinese opened up some lead-infested dog food to feed some of it's rural workers, in your honor. A few Russians stopped hitting their wives for a while to see CNN declare you the winner over that 200 year old man and that professional infomercial saleswoman. So, you need to give us our comic relief." - Vinay | विनय via Bookmarklet

Leno picked the right time to retire ;-) - Brian Sullivan

Something that works well with a notebook and is below $50. - Vinay | विनय

I've been disappointed with WMP lately because it no longer saves my ratings when I make them even though I have my settings set to write the ratings to the files and it won't recognize discs when I try to rip them. It seems like I have to delete and reimport my entire library (hours) any time I want to do anything with the software. I wish that there were better software for managing a large mp3 library. iTunes sucks just as badly. - Thomas Hawk

Thomas: I know you have some Drobos floating around, but don't know if you have a DroboShare. There's a DroboApp which runs on the DS and gives you access to the music files on it via iTunes... - Holger Eilhard

Same problem here! Lost all my ratings! :-( I used Ratings to sync mp3s with my phone so I could make a random selection of best rated songs. Big part of songs are high rated songs and a small selection of unrated songs to rate on my phone. - Daan

"March 2, 1914. "Margarete Ober." The Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano with a nice rib roast. 8x10 glass negative, G.G. Bain Collection." - Vinay | विनय via Bookmarklet

"Don’t flirt with that woman! That’s Miss Alice Reighly, president of the Anti-Flirt Club of Washington, D.C. The 1923 club is for women and girls who have been embarrassed by men trying to flirt with them! So much for the Roaring Twenties!" - Vinay | विनय via Bookmarklet

WANT. (but only if it connects via serial port--or parallel port would be even better!) - thepete

0 == 'v', 1 == 'i' - Jesse Stay via twhirl

Oh sorry guys! :( - Éric Senterre

"A view of the dashboard of a taxi in Bangkok" - Vinay | विनय

perspective is everything.. here's another one: all writings to the west of jerusalem go left-->right; whereas writings to the east go right <--left (all written word points to jerusalem?) - a friend told me that...weird! - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)

And the irony is we indians(me and Vinay) are explaining..lol - Varun Mahajan

Varun is right. It's also why the America's got the "new world" tag because it simply wasn't on the radar at the time - Duncan Riley

Hey now, it's your birthday too, right? - Josh Haley

must be great to celebrate both birthdays! many happy returns of ye day. - Karim

Happy Birthday! :-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

Well I say I teetotal but I do have some wine or Pimms but very rarely. - Kol Tregaskes

I go on a wine binge around Christmas - maybe three glasses? Is that a semi-teetotaller? - jlt

I'm a soda teetotaller. I cannot stand the stuff. Regular is too sweet, diet leaves a nasty taste, and it's all way too carbonated for me. Anyway, I think a beer or two is probably less harmful, then the chemical concoction that is soda! - Ian May

Could be me -- need the number so I can call - Brian Sullivan

You may want to buy some tomatoes first. He/she may want it back. - Vinay | विनय

Economic Left/Right: -4.50 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.18 - Vinay | विनय via Bookmarklet

"One of the most hotly contested races of this most historic of election years was in Colorado's State Senate District 14, between Bob Bacon (D) and Matt Fries (R)." - Vinay | विनय via Bookmarklet

Awesome! Bacon FTW!!! - Mohomed=genieyclo

I don't like this result. - Vinay | विनय

"White space" - Vinay | विनय via Bookmarklet